Installation

Install pip and then use it to install Moar:

easy_install pip
pip install moar

Requirements

You need to have an image library installed. Moar ships with support for the Python Imaging Library and ImageMagick via the wand library.

Python Imaging Library (PIL) installation

Prerequisites: libjpeg and zlib.

Ubuntu 10.04 package installation:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev

Then, install the Python Imaging Library using pip:

pip install pillow

Watch the output for messages on what support got compiled in, you at least want to see the following:

--- JPEG support available
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available

Wand installation

Prerequisites:

• ImageMagick

In Ubuntu 12.4:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
pip install Wand

In Mac OSX:

brew install imagemagick
pip install Wand

Getting the source code

Moar is actively developed on GitHub, where the code is always available.

You can either clone the public repository

git clone git://github.com/lucuma/moar.git

or, download the zipball:

wget https://github.com/lucuma/moar/zipball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package,
or install it into your site-packages easily:

python setup.py install